Cooking-stove



S. BEN'TZ.

7 Cooking Stove.

No. 3.470; Patented March 9, 1844.

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SAMUEL BENTZ, OF BOONSBORO, MARYLAND.

COOKING-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 3,470, dated March 9, 1844.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BnNTz, of Boonsboro, l/Vashington county, State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Premium Cook- Stove, which is described as follows, reference being had to the annexed drawings of the same, making part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section.

This stove has in addition to the usual fire chamber A, oven B, flues C, boiler holes D, a circular revolving plate E perforated for various boilers or other culinary articles turning on the top plate of the stove or in a groove therein or on a central stud or pivot F projecting down from the center thereof and set in a step or box in the top plate of the oven so that said circular plate may be turned horizontally by handles G projecting from the upper side of it and any one of the vessels therein brought next the fire chamberto be heated, or removed therefrom for lessening temperature. This plate thus arranged can be removed and its place filled by a circular plate of the same diameter having a single opening fora large kettle or boiler adapted to the boiling of clothing or other articles while the cooking is carried on at thesame time in the front of the stove .or in the ovens. The ringhowever may be dispensed with. The aforesaid adaptation of the stove to receive a large copper or iron kettle forthe purpose of boiling clothing, or to carry on the work of washing day without interfering with the cooking department to any material extent, is a great desideratum with persons living in cities. They generally have no wash houses and have usually small kitchens and to be able tocook for 10 or 20 persons and to wash for the same number of persons without interruption, with the same fire, is both convenient and economical.

To take off the circular plate with the three or more apertures to substitute a cast iron ring as above described adapted toreceive a large copper or iron kettle holding from 20 to 30 gallons or more of water is a very useful improvement.

The construction of the upper part of my stove to receive the aforesaid large boiler when the clrcular plate 1s removed difiers from all other stoves in which circular re becomes useless as they have not been adaptedto receive a large boiler filling the space occupied by the revolving plate.

It is not intended to claim the use of a revolving circular perforated plate but only the adaptation of the stove to the purpose of extensive boiling in a large vessel when the plate is removed and for the carrying on of various culinary operations by the substitutions of the perforated plate and boilers for the aforesaid largeboiler. Another valuable improvement in the Premium stove is in combining with it additional drafts I J K made to pass around a pastry baker L of sheet iron arranged under the bottom plate of the stove, said drafts being opened or closed at pleasure by a new arrangement of a'vertical transverse perforated partition M and a sliding register N and a horizontal sliding register 0 and perforated bottom plate P enabling the user to carry on the several operations of cooking at the front part of the stove roasting in the main oven and baking in the pastry oven and boiling clothes-in the large boiler on the top of the stove.

In order to be able to regulate the heat of the front part of the oven at pleasure I arrange a segment plate Q in the front flue and against the oven plate next the fire chamber inclosing a space called the atmospheric flue into which fresh air is admitted through apertures T in the side plates of the stove opened or closed at pleasure for changing the temperature of the front part of the oven by means of turning valves T fixed on the ends of a horizontal axle extending through said space and side plates of the stove-said valves being turned simultaneously for opening or closing the apertures at the same time. lators V in my oven doors for admitting a circulation of pure air to the interior of the oven during the cooking. I likewise make an aperture in the back plate of the oven leading into the back flue or funnel of the I alsohave ventistove through Which steam and gas pass rying the draft under the oven and around from the oven. into the smoke flue-said the pastry baker as set forth.

opening beinp' opened or closed at pleasure. r

What I clzdm as my invention and Which SAMUEL BENTA' 5 I desire to secure by Letters Patent is- Vitnesses:

The arrangement of the fiues C, I, J, K, MICHAEL BEARD, in combination With the pastry oven L as PATRICK QUINN,

set forth, and sliding registers N, O for car- FRIsBY DAVIS. 

